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adverse weather and want of sufficient time, we have been 

 encouraged by finds which gave promise of rich ground 



Map of the L.M.B.C. District. 



and abundant spoil, we feel that more of our efforts in the 

 future must be directed towards the exploration of this 

 region outside the bar. 



On July 12th we hired the tug " Spindrift," belonging 

 to the Liverpool Steam Tug Company, for a day's work, 

 and a party of fourteen of us started from the Landing 

 Stage for a long day at sea. We steamed to a point about 

 25 miles N.W. of the bar lightship, where, at depths of 

 about twenty fathoms, we had a dozen hauls of large and 

 small dredges, besides tow-netting work. The bottom, as 

 a rule, was composed of sand and broken shells, covered 

 in places with enormous quantities of Ophiuroids — mostly 

 Opluothrix pentaphyllum. Spatangus purpureus was also 

 obtained in abundance and of large size. Mr. Walker 

 tells me that a very large Iphimedia obesa and two Euonyx 



